Observations API Services on labs.waterdata.usgs.gov will be retired. Users should migrate to services on api.waterdata.usgs.gov instead.
Category: Data Science
The new Water Data APIs provide programmatic pathways to accessing all USGS Water Data for the Nation (WDFN), providing a consistent interface for accessing all data from the National Water Information System.
A new endpoint for peak flows is now available, queries now have additional metadata fields for filtering, and a new UI theme has been released for HTML responses.
The National Water Availability Assessment Data Companion (NWDC) provides nationally-consistent modeled water data, including the surface water supply and use index (SUI), which is an indication of water limitation across the lower 48 United States. In this blog, we demonstrate how to programmatically download data from the Data Companion using R and API web services, process the data for mapping, and create customized data visualizations.
The National Water Availability Assessment Data Companion provides a centralized source for national water availability data, including quantity, quality, and use across approximately 80,000 sub-watersheds nationwide.
Building firefly-style maps in R to see patterns in stream names across United States.
Building a reproducible system for identifying the generic feature words from stream names using R.
We have released modernized Water Data APIs which will supersede the WaterServices family of APIs. Users will need to migrate their applications to use these new services in order to retain uninterrupted access to USGS water data going forward.
Plotting hydrography data has never been easier with the latest versions of nhdplusTools and ggplot2. This blog demonstrates how to fetch and map National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) rivers and waterbodies with several reproducible examples.
This is a basic dataRetrieval tutorial for USGS water data in R in which we highlight new functionality for dataRetrieval and the new Water Data APIs.